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Article: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Taking Her Time
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 25, 1994
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Right now, Mary Chapin Carpenter's favorite song is one nobody
has written yet. "Off the Road Again."
After "18 months of being out there all the time touring,"
Carpenter is taking serious time off for the first time in five
years. Actually, when her tour ended in November, she was just going
to hibernate through the winter and stir awake in the spring. But in
January Carpenter decided "no more in '94."
"I feel like I'm just starting to get used to it," she said
last week over coffee at an Alexandria cafe. "Now it's great to call
a friend on a Saturday night and be able to go out and have dinner,
as opposed to `Well, I have to work tonight ... and I'm across the
country.' "
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